Hardback. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original brown cloth, lilac-blocked spine label lettered and framed in gilt. Lean to spine, extremities bruised, a few marks to boards. Discrete pen scribble to ffep, POI in pen to half-title page. Else, clean. In Susan Sluglett's illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, spine sunned, extremities lightly creased. Very good/ very good From the collection of Jennie Bond (1950-), the English journalist and television presenter; she was the BBC's royal correspondent for fourteen years: without inscription.